(urth) Ymar

[António Marques]

Andrew Mason wrote:
>> And which wasn't at all needed. That's why I find it strange that
>> GW would do violence to his chronology.
>
> Well, lots of people have thought, for reasons quite independent of
> Ymar, that something has changed at some point between _New Sun_
> (the original quartet) and _Short Sun_ - and of course there was
> never a detailed chronology; it may not be so much a matter of
> positively changing as of making definite things that were previously
> indefinite.

Well, if someone could come up with an integrated chronology for all of
Gerry Anderson's stuff, it stands to reason that it will be very
difficult to prove anything about the evolution of GW's conception of
the Sun universe. I don't find it strange that SS is different from LS
and both very different from NS, I'd just like to understand why, though
there may be no ultimate reason for it.

>> I like Sergei's idea that Ymar may have been autarch centuries
>> after he was born. Or Ymar the first autarch may not have been Ymar
>> the Almost Just, why should the latter need such a qualifier?
>
> I think they are the same, because Severian says to Reechy/Ymar
> 'rule justly, or at least as justly as ciicumstances permit'.

Good point, but then again Severian's not omniscient either.